There are many problems with this post and this study:
This study did not conclude that there are no health benefits from taking multivitamins, that's a false equivalence made by the poster.
This study has no parameters for the quality or types of vitamins taken other than "multivitamin"
This study exclusively reports the correlation between mortality and multivitamins, which is an inconsequential and useless statistic without any parameters.
This study does not take into account any variables apart from a lack of long-term health disorders among multivitamin takers.
This is relevant as many people take vitamins specifically to rectify long-term health disorders.
Then again, seeing as how their only metric was mortality and not efficacy on health, that wouldn't have mattered in this study.
Objectively, a large percentage of the multivitamin market are older people, who are more likely to die.
This could be one of the explanations for the 4% higher mortality rate in multivitamin takers. I'm sure there are others, since no variables are parameters were taken into account or structured into the study. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2820369
This "study" is the sum function on an Excel sheet that counted the number of deaths connected to the number of people who reported taking multivitamins, which is a useless number without controlled parameters or variables taken into account.
Saying that this is a sum function on an Excel spreadsheet is a VAST oversimplification of this study. Stating that they did not take variables and parameters into account means that you did not read the study you linked. This may very well be a poor study, but not for the reasons you stated.
I take Magnesium Citrate because I get frequent foot cramps, and it helps reduce them a little. Foot cramps aren't life threatening besides i guess the small increase in risk when it occasionally happens while driving.
Yep. Wife and I take a multivitamin with an emphasis in vitamin D because we both avoid the sun as much as possible. The rest just supplement other vitamins that we otherwise don't get enough of because of our regular diet.
I can't speak for anyone else, but the supplements I take are primarily intended to improve the quality of my life, not quantity. For example, I take a B multivitamin because I find that my nails don't break quite so easily when I do.
I take B vitamins because I don't feel like a dirt grub after a bender. I'm not worried about living longer or I wouldn't go on benders. I just want to feel good while I'm here.
The reason they do nothing is that most people have a reasonable diet that hits all the micros. It doesn’t even have to be a stellar diet, or even vaguely “healthy”, per se.
If your diet already includes the micros; then your body just shits or pisses them out. If you have an actual deficiency in something, it’s probably not diet related and more to do with uptake. Either way, that’s a conversation for you and your doctor, not a pill pusher advert
Folks on Lemmy seem to love shitting on multivitamins. I brought some about a year ago because I was run down and getting sick all the time. Im a Chef so inconsistent diet and drinking alcohol kind of come with the deal. Anyway nower days I feel more energetic and my immune system seems more robust. The daily multivitamins I take cost $0.25 each.
A vitamin and mineral supplement will not fix an unhealthy diet on its own, but it can help cover key nutrients if someone is struggling to get them from food. An example of this might be vitamin D where adults in the UK are encouraged to take as a supplement in winter or vegans and vegetarians who might benefit from a supplement of vitamin B12.
Well, it seems they do. Especially for vegans, sedentary people, UK people (no sun at all), etc
